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Near the Falls: Two Hundred Years of The Falls Church
by Alves, Joseph Hodge and Howard Spelman
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
Falls Church, VA: The Falls Church, 1969. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. 108 pages. Illustrated. Two library stamps, and small ownership inscription. Otherwise, pages bright and clean and free of marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's red cloth with title and scene looking through the doors of the church to interior on front cover in gilt. Remnants of dust jacket consisting of the front and back covers, but with flaps and spine excised, included. A very good first edition of the colorful history of the famous Episcopal parish near Washington, D.C., of which George Washington was once vestry member.
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- Bookseller
- St. Wulfstans Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1135
- Title
- Near the Falls: Two Hundred Years of The Falls Church
- Author
- Alves, Joseph Hodge and Howard Spelman
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Falls Church
- Place of Publication
- Falls Church, VA
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Episcopal history Virginia presidents Washington civil war 20th
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About the Seller
St. Wulfstans Books
Biblio member since 2009
Fayetteville, Arkansas
About St. Wulfstans Books
St. Wulfstan's specializes in antiquarian religious books, especially Bibles, Prayer Books, and other texts in the Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal or Presbyterian traditions. We are known for our extensive inventory of liturgical texts (such as the Book of Common Prayer) and related books.The inventory ranges from historically significant and very rare texts to affordable copies of prayer books from the U.S. and Great Britain.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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